Horace Engdahl
Horace Engdahl | |
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University of Aarhus | |
| Occupation | Professor of Scandinavian Literature |
| Spouse | Ebba Witt-Brattström (1989–2014) |
| Member of the Swedish Academy (Seat No. 17) | |
| Assumed office 20 December 1997 | |
| Preceded by | Johannes Edfelt |
| Permament Secretary of the Swedish Academy | |
| In office June 1999 – June 2009 | |
| Preceded by | Sture Allén |
| Succeeded by | Peter Englund |
Horace Oscar Axel Engdahl (born 30 December 1948) is a Swedish literary historian and critic, and has been a member of the Swedish Academy since 1997. He was the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy from 1999 to June 2009, when he was succeeded by Swedish author and historian Peter Englund.
Biography
Engdahl was born in
fluently.Engdahl was member of the Kris editorial staff.[2]
On 16 October 1997, Engdahl became a member of the
Between 1989 and 2014 he was married to Ebba Witt-Brattström, professor of literature at Södertörn University outside Stockholm. They have three sons.
Controversy
In October 2008, Engdahl told the Associated Press that the United States is "too isolated, too insular" to challenge Europe as "the center of the literary world"[4] and that "they don't translate enough and don't really participate in the big dialogue of literature ...That ignorance is restraining." At the time of the interview, no American author had received a Nobel Prize in Literature since 1993.[5] His comments generated controversy across the Atlantic, with Harold Augenbraum, head of the U.S. National Book Foundation offering to send him a reading list.[4]
In April 2018, the New York Times reported that Engdahl had railed against former Academy members who left following allegations of sexual abuse by Jean-Claude Arnault.[6]
Bibliography
- Om det utopiska tänkesättet : föreläsning i Stockholm (1982)
- Swedish ballet and dance : a contemporary view (1984)
- Den romantiska texten : en essä i nio avsnitt (1986)
- Om uppmärksamheten (1988)
- Stilen och lyckan : essäer om litteratur (1992)
- Beröringens ABC : en essä om rösten i litteraturen (1994)
- Stagnelius Kärleken (1996)
- Meteorer (1999)
- Ärret efter drömmen (2009)
- Cigaretten efteråt (2011)
- Den sista grisen (2016)
- Nattens mänsklighet (2019)
- De obekymrade (2019)
References
- ^ "Presentation". Archived from the original on 2008-12-19. Retrieved 2008-12-23.
- ^ "Stol nr 17 - Horace Engdahl | Svenska Akademien". www.svenskaakademien.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 2018-02-11.
- ^ Nilsson, Dan (2008-12-20). "Fattade beslutet i maj". Svenska Dagbladet. Retrieved 2008-12-20.
- ^ a b "No Nobel prizes for American writers: they're too parochial" by Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian, Thursday 2 October 2008
- ^ "Lost in Translation? A Swede’s Snub of U.S. Lit"; New York Times, October 4, 2008, by Charles McGrath
- ^ "Sex Abuse Scandal Casts Shadow Over Nobel Prize for Literature"; The New York Times, April 11, 2018
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